Procare: Childcare App

Procare Solutions

About this app

Why Procare?

For more than 30 years, Procare Solutions has been helping early childhood educators simplify operations and create meaningful connections with families, so they can focus on what matters most – the children in their care.

Leverage professional communications with the easy-to-use child care mobile app and the opportunity for real-time updates from the classroom to enhance the parent and staff experience.

· Share child care activities and daily reports

· Streamline two-way family communications

· Share photos and videos

· Record and share student milestones

· Send and view news and events via easy-to-create newsletters

Procare includes:

CONTACTLESS SIGN IN/OUT : Parents can sign in-out students contactless using QR code or Curbside GeoLocation.

STUDENT ATTENDANCE: Replace paper sheets with digital SIGN IN-OUT. Record student attendance, absences (add notes) and transfer to different rooms. Generate BEST industry standard reporting from our website to satisfy childcare LICENSING needs. (Also has OFFLINE MODE to run without network)

PARENT KIOSK: Parents can drop off and pick up children easily (optional use of a 4-digit pin). Record SIGNATURES and capture answers with DROP-OFF form. Charge payments based on their HOURLY attendance and collect LATE FEE.

STAFF TIMECARD: Staff can CHECK-IN from the app using 4-digit pin. Build REPORTS of their timecard from website for PAYROLL.

TRACK RATIOS: Always be licensing-compliant. Track ratios in real time from the app for all your rooms.

PHOTOS and VIDEOS: Send any number of photos and videos, and tag students with one click on our child care app. Unlimited storage and sent to parents with one tap.

LEARNING: Record custom student activities and attach development skills like fine motor, social behavior, language and more.

DAILY SHEETS: Send daily activities for infants/toddlers and record Diapers, Bottles, Naps, Meals and Bathroom visits. Reports are sent to parents automatically.

BILLING: Create and send invoice to parents easily. Manage all billing transactions, payments, refunds and credits from the app.

INCIDENTS: Record all information related to any student incidents, send the report to parents and get their signature.

CALENDAR: Share upcoming events with parents easily for any day and month.

FAMILY COMMUNICATION: You can send a message, text or email to parents or guardians instantly. Have their phone number and call if needed.

MANAGE CENTER: Keep your entire student roster and family database in your fingertips.

REPORTS: Detailed reports for everything you do is available from website for student attendance, staff timecard, billing and entire roster.

INTEGRATIONS: Procare integrates seamlessly with all major SIS (student database) systems, QuickBooks (accounting systems), payroll systems and much more.

Complete child care management and daycare software features, e.g., student / family information, immunizations, reporting and more.

Ratings and reviews

This platform is terrible for documentation. Videos, photos, and newsletter formats are often not comfortable. Videos often will not be able to be played and documentation is lost and videos and photos will be automatically sent in the incorrect orientation and croping photos in random ways.. The staff at my school is having difficulty adjusting to this app. I recommend this app for printing attendance lists or messaging parents only. Admin tried to contact support/ hours on hold.

I like the app overall and have no complains, just wish they'd fix the phone notifications - currently I'm required to expand and click each one of them in by phone notification panel so that they go away. It takes too much time and they come back later if I don't do exactly that way, all other apps will clear all their phone notifications as soon as we enter the notifications section of the app. Will edit this review once the issue is fixed

Needs polish Requires double tap of back button to exit. Login/logout is buggy if app isn't closed between uses. Also, if staff is helpfully signing in/out at same time as you then you will wind up doing the opposite of what you intended to do. Image download gives info in notification but within the app there is no acknowledgement that anything has happened. Having twins leads to notifications being doubled constantly. Primary functionality is there but not as good as it could be.

What's new

Bug fix for app camera not opening for some device versions